slow ulead dvd moviefactory

deadstar · Post by **deadstar** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:33 am

ok as u can see i have slow ulead dvd moviefactory i have version 5.0 this hasnt always been a problem as i could burn stuff onto a disc in under 3hrs and now when im trying to burn stuff onto disc its over 15hrs :S i dont understand as i even try to burn the same stuff as i got a quick time on and its still taking ages i dont think its my dvd writers as i have two and tried on both and still ages :S and when i get to the end it just says can't open can anyone please help me with this

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:23 pm

You haven't said so but I would bet your'e dealing with one of the following file formats:

DivX
Xvid
MPEG4

If so you would be better off converting them to something else first.
Take a look at the link to Free Stuff in the tutorials Section.

deadstar · Post by **deadstar** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:38 pm

hey man ta for the reply but its just simple avi files and once again

its really annoying me think im going to lose the plot with my computer

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 9:58 pm

deadstar wrote:hey man ta for the reply but its just simple avi files and once again its really annoying me think im going to lose the plot with my computer

There is nothing simple about an "AVI" file because there is no such thing!
AVI is shorthand for Audio Video Interleaved.

What you have to look at is the 'avi' codec.
Codec is shorthand for COmpiler/DECompiler.

If you recorded uncompressed video and audio it would occupy something like 65GB of hard drive space per hour. It would be cumbersome to work with due to the vast file size - just imagine a computer trying to shift that amount of data around every time you wanted to perform an edit.

So the boffins came up with video COmpression to make the file size smaller and more manageable. As soon as you have COmpressed data you then need something to DECompress it again.

There are loads of different CODECs in existance, some better than others.

Xdiv
DivX
MPEG4

Are all (avi) CODECs but more highly compressed than your average CODEC. as a result they are difficult to work with, as you are now finding out.

For video Editing Purposes the most popular CODEC is DV.
This compresses video to about 13GB per hour and is a good format for editing.

The problem you are curently encountering is that to create a DVD video the video has to be converted into a format known as MPEG2.
MPEG2 is in fact another kind of CODEC but it is the one that VOB files are made from.

deadstar · Post by **deadstar** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:56 pm

cool ta what would be the best programme to use to convert files

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:22 am

Deadstar,

I don't know about the best, but this is one such program, SUPER.

You can also have a look in our Free Stuff for Ulead Products forum, for others.

Ron P.